Trousers-guard.



No.633,889. Patented Sept. 26, 899.

L. NOTTINGHAM.

TROUSERS GUARD.

Application filed May 18, 1898.)

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U IT D STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

LLOYD NOTTINGHAM, OF PIKESVILLE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL H. BALLARD, OE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TROUSERS-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,889, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed May 13, 1898. Serial No. 680,541. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLOYD NOTTINGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pikes- Ville, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined guard and clamp for trousers.

The object or the inventionis toprovide a device that will serve,,'first, as a guard for the bottom of the trousers-legs'at thej'heel,

ing the device holding the pants-leg folded about the ankle.

The deviceconsists of metal links in the form of a flat chain and a spring-clip at each end of the chain. The metal links ct are connected and of such pattern as to lie fiat. The links may he graduated in size, the larger ones being at the middle and the smallest at each end. A spring-clip b has an eye 0, which couples to the smallest link cat the end. One of these clips may be at each end. One of these devices is to be attached to the bottom of each leg of the trousers on the inner The links may be "attached to the cloth of the trousers by any suitable means, such as 'a metal fastener or by needle and thread.

Each link may be thus secured or as many of the links secured as desired. Thus attached the chain will lie flat like a braid against the cloth of the trousers and will contact with the heel part of the shoe, and thereby serve as a guard or protector for the trousers. Also any link maybe grasped by the clip h at either end of the chain when the leg of the trousers is folded or gathered, as in Fig. 4, and then the chain will serve as a binder to hold the 4 trousers close to the limb. Thus the device -I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the legs of a pair of trousers of a flat flexible link-chain extending horizontally and attached to each leg of the trousers, and one or more spring-clips attached to the chain-said clips adapted to clamp any one link of the chain and bind or confine the bottom of the trousers about the ankle of the wearer, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' LLOYD NOTTINGHAM.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. MANN, Jr., GE RGE F. PATTERSON. 

